Tag: pronto emerald city cycle share

February 29, 2016

Pronto buyout is not only a good deal for Seattle, it’s the only choice that makes sense

Sustainability, access to healthy transportation choices, economic development, congestion reduction, innovation. Public bikes grow and support so many of Seattle’s goals and values as a city that it’s hard to believe we are even thinking about cutting modest losses and liquidating the system at the first sign of challenge. The City Council’s Sustainability and Transportation…
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tagged: city council, city council district 1, demi allen, Lisa herbold, mike o’brien, pronto emerald city cycle share, transportation committee
February 24, 2016

How Pronto can become a beautiful public bike system by going bigger

Bike share is beautiful. Bicycles owned by the public, available to the public at any time for just a couple bucks. It’s a public bicycle transit system operating on a relatively shoestring budget. It’s not a system designed with hardcore cyclists in mind, it’s designed for everyone else. Or at least it should be. With…
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tagged: pronto emerald city cycle share
February 18, 2016

A sober look at Pronto’s finances ahead of Council meeting

The City of Seattle already cut checks in December and early 2016 totaling $305,000 to keep Pronto Cycle Share operational, Josh Feit at Publicola reports. This revelation will certainly be a topic of conversation during tomorrow’s 2 p.m. Transportation Committee meeting about the system. These payments were included in a slide we published in late…
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tagged: barbara gray, city council, josh feit, nicole freedman, phyllis porter, pronto emerald city cycle share, publicola, scott kubly, sdot, transportation committee
February 15, 2016

Watch: City Inside/Out takes on the Pronto buyout debate

Seattle Channel’s excellent City Inside/Out show took on the Pronto Cycle Share situation Friday, including an interview with yours truly and a panel with SDOT Active Transportation Chief Nicole Freedman, Councilmember Mike O’Brien, Rainier Valley Greenways and Rainier Riders leader Phyllis Porter and persistently anti-bike Fremont business leader Suzie Burke. The episode begins with a…
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tagged: city inside/out, pronto emerald city cycle share, seattle channel
February 10, 2016

Bike share can flourish in Seattle

With the City Council debating whether to buy out the 54-station Pronto Cycle Share system already in need of a buyout, the main question on people’s minds is: How do we know it will be successful going forward and worth that investment? Bike share in Seattle absolutely can succeed and flourish, but it’s not guaranteed.…
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tagged: bike share, center city bike network, helmet laws, pronto emerald city cycle share, puget sound bike share, u district
February 4, 2016

Pronto needs city buyout before end of March, how did we get here?

The hard deadline to save Pronto is March 30. With more than 30,000 people taking 144,000 trips in the first year of operations, supporters and City Councilmembers are scratching their heads trying to figure out how Pronto got into such a dire situation with hardly any warning to the public. Ridership in the first year…
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tagged: city council, holly houser, mike o’brien, nicole freedman, paulo nunes-ueno, pronto emerald city cycle share, puget sound bike share, transportation committee